{"id":17993,"date":"2015-12-22T23:09:04","date_gmt":"2015-12-23T07:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=17993"},"modified":"2015-12-22T23:09:04","modified_gmt":"2015-12-23T07:09:04","slug":"squatchs-personal-update-22122015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/22\/squatchs-personal-update-22122015\/","title":{"rendered":"Squatch\u2019s Personal Update 22\/12\/2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well I had a full eye exam today, an annual event since I am diabetic.  The good news . . . my baby blues are in excellent shape!  The bad news . . . my eyes are tired and the light is bothering them, likely just a result of all the drops.  Tomorrow will be fine.  We had what I call thick rain today . . . snow mixed with rain and cold.<\/span><\/p>\n

Puzzle<\/strong> — Today’s took me 2:43 (average 5:11). To do it, <\/span>click here<\/strong><\/span><\/a>. How did you do?<\/span><\/p>\n

GoodNewsNetwork<\/strong><\/span><\/a> — If you ever wonder whether you can make a difference in someone’s life, look at this 1988 picture from Children’s Nurse magazine.<\/p>\n

The nurse on the left is Lynn Bartos, who spent years helping treat the little girl, Nichole Frye, who had been born with a serious birth defect.<\/p>\n

The little girl called the nurse “Sweet Lynnie” and the nurse called little Nichole, “Ninni.”<\/p>\n

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After almost 25 years, the two met again by chance, and Lynn learned just how much she did make a difference in her patients’ lives, when the roles were reversed.<\/p>\n

This time, she was the patient–in a hospital being treated for rheumatoid arthritis, when a young nurse came in to adjust her medicine.<\/p>\n

Lynn felt something familiar about her and read the name on her name tag.<\/p>\n

“Ninni?” she asked.<\/p>\n

Sure enough, little Nichole, now 30, had followed in the footsteps of “Sweet Lynnie,” the nurse who inspired her as a little girl and nursed her through years of surgery and treatment.<\/p>\n

Too often, we never get to know how we influence others.  In my 20s, 30s and 40s, I was a Sunday School teacher and a youth group leader for junior and senior highs.  The kids were somewhat rebellious with their parents, but things were different with me.  There was always 2 way respect.  But then my work sent me far north and those days of youth work were done.  About 10 years later I got a call asking me to a wedding.  One of my "babies" was getting married.  Then, about 2 years after that, I received a call from this young man.  I thought he would tell me that they were pregnant.  He said his older brother was getting married and would I come?  Of course I would be there.  And then he said that they were pregnant.  This little girl was named after her 2 grandmothers and me.  Too rarely do we know how we influence others and it is a great privilege when such is revealed.<\/span><\/p>\n

My Universe<\/strong> —<\/span><\/p>\n

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Well I had a full eye exam today, an annual event since I am diabetic.  The good news . . . my baby blues are in excellent shape!  The bad news . . . my eyes are tired and the light is bothering them, likely just a result of all the drops.  Tomorrow will be […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-open-thread","category-politics","category-35-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}